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How to break into someone’s account

It happened to Jeff Atwood’s Stack Overflow account: Someone broke into his account and logged in as him.  Fortunately, the hacker reported the problem to Jeff and did no malicous actions.  Very few “hackers” are this ethical.

Read the original post here, I Just Logged In As You: How It Happened.  It shows just how easy it can be to crack a password.

Simple Security Tip #1: Use strong passwords with lots of characters, numbers, and symbols.

Simple Security Tip #2: Don’t use the same password for every account you have.

Simple Security Tip #3: Use two-factor authentication whenever possible. This makes it exetremely difficult for someone to break into your account.

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5 Responses to “How to break into someone’s account”

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    November 16th, 2009 at 5:43 pm

    Mostly using same password on many accounts will get your account get hacked if they get one they have all

    also as mentioned above make strong passwords
    you can find tutorial “how to make buletproof passwords that are easy to remember on my website”
    and make sure you read it,it will help you allot with password issues

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